About two years ago, we published something about busty gravure idol Hikaru Aoyama's semi-nude photo book debut, and it was an unexpectedly popular post. There has been a kind of subtle shift in the ...

Turning notoriety into profit is an age-old trick, and 31-year-old YouTuber Yu Hirose has done it. After the sexy YouTuber, who boasts over 450,000 subscribers, got arrested for public indecency for ...

People like to bang on about the supposed Protestant work ethic, but one of the first things you notice about Japan when you visit or live here is how seriously locals take their jobs. They work (or ...

We are not as obsessed with haafu models and actors as the Japanese fashion world and mainstream media seems to be, but we do love certain biracial celebrities. One of them is British-Japanese ...

As we get older, we appreciate the charms and beauty of older women more. But it's far from the case that we ignored jukujo during our own salad days. Far from it, we have long sung the praises of ...

It's not just top businessmen and politicians who frequent the pricey hostess bars of Ginza and elsewhere. Male celebrities also have expensive tastes, including spending time with the attractive ...

Sometimes, things do have a happy ending. When AKB48's Minami Minegishi shaved her head back in 2013 to apologize for a sex scandal, it prompted immense controversy over the control that management ...

When Anri Sakaguchi announced her marriage to a transgender man in June, it felt like just the latest chapter in the saga of a troubled celebrity, which had already encompassed arrests, a stint in ...

Most of the idols who form the hundreds-strong ranks of the Sakamichi and 48 Group music groups soon disappear into obscurity after graduating. A mere handful carve out careers as fashion models, TV ...

Japanese adult toy makers are never one to let a commercial opportunity pass. When a toy proves a hit, they usually follow up with a similar one -- or several. But this time, the follow-up is not ...